Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place.
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.
I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.
When I signed up for Y&R, my actor friends said, 'A daytime soap? It'll kill your career!' Now they'd trade places with me in a heartbeat.
Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.
Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.
I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.
New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.
To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.
When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
I think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years.
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.
As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.
Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.
New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.
There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.
